A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise. Idaho. Isaiah 61 You may be more familiar with this text because of who quotes it, rather than from its own context in Isaiah. This is the scroll from which Jesus reads when he preaches in his home church in Nazareth. He announces it has been…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho on October 6, 2013. Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 A few weeks ago, we heard from the Prophet Jeremiah. He was reminding the Hebrew people that they had forgotten their part in God’s story, They had forgotten to tell how their stories were connected to God’s bigger…
A sermon preached July 28, 2013 at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho Amos 7:7-17 It is good to be home. A week at the Presbyterian Youth Triennium in Purdue with 5,000 of my closest friends and then most of a week in Maine, recovering from Triennium while Alden was at a soccer camp. I…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church May 22, 2011 Acts 7:44-8:8 Wasn’t the joyful gospel proclamation of Stephen so well received by his audience!? We didn’t hear the entire story of Stephen, which begins in chapter 6, but he offers the crowd a sweeping narrative of the Hebrew story, culminating with Jesus standing in…
Glass Overflowing 